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    The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral: In Search Of, #7
    The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral: In Search Of, #7
    The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral: In Search Of, #7
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    The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral: In Search Of, #7

    By Andrew Sparke

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    A new dean appointed to Lincoln Cathedral to deal with a medieval mess - the result a church civil war for modern times. What's at stake isn't just money and reputation, but the combatants' very souls…The Magna Carta Wars is the true story of the battle which raged from the late 1980s for the control of Lincoln Cathedral and it's most priceless possession - one of only four surviving copies of King John's Magna Carta of 1215 AD.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateJan 25, 2019
    ISBN9781386135050
    The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral: In Search Of, #7
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    Andrew Sparke

    A lawyer and retired local government Chief Executive, Andrew Sparke has reinvented himself as a writer and indie publisher. He owns and manages APS Publications, a vehicle for fiction, poetry, food, travel, sport, erotica, music, photography, health and spirituality, which publishes other indie authors as well as his own work. News and more information is available online at andrew.sparke.com Two novels 'Abuse, Cocaine and Soft Furnishings' and 'Copper Trance & Motorways' are available. A third entitled 'Anger Limerence & Fault Lines' is in preparation.

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      The Magna Carta Wars Of Lincoln Cathedral - Andrew Sparke

      THE MAGNA CARTA WARS

      This is the true story of a war between dean and chapter and of both with their bishop; of a war conducted first in a clandestine manner and later in the full glare of publicity, fuelled by mutual loathing and distrust, with each side certain of its own moral rectitude but no-one able to strike the killer blow which would lead to cessation of hostilities. All the feuding participants had one thing in common; refusal to surrender. Sheltered by the medieval power systems of a cathedral, dean and Canons are immune from external influence and incapable of removal no matter how grievous the impasse reached. They cannot be sacked and these particular clerks in holy orders at Lincoln were too obdurate to consider resigning from office, however much the government of the day, the media and the laity might press for such an outcome.

      The hostilities which arose from the appointment of a new dean to Lincoln in 1989 with a brief to reform those who had no intention of being reformed led to years of metaphorical bloodshed. It shows that the Trollopes, Anthony and Joanna, were if anything in their fiction, too reserved in their imaginings of the potential for ruthless selfishness among those who live in the rarefied security of a cathedral community.

      TIMELINE

      1987

      Appointment of Robert Hardy as Bishop of Lincoln

      1988

      Magna Carta on display in Brisbane, Australia

      1989

      Appointment of Brandon Jackson as Dean of Lincoln Cathedral

      1990

      The Church Times article on Magna Carta at Expo-88

      Cathedral Chapter seeks Bishop’s intervention in Dean’s failing relationship with Subdean and Residential Canons

      Visitation by Bishop

      The Bishop’s Admonition

      Greater Chapter motion of no confidence in Residential Canons

      Private Eye article

      1991

      Fraud Squad investigation

      1992

      Retirement of Canon Laurence and Canon Nurser

      1994

      Complaint by former verger, Verity Freestone

      1995

      Consistory Court trial

      Intervention of Archbishop of Canterbury sought

      1997

      Retirement of Dean, Brandon Jackson

      2002

      Retirement of Bishop Robert Hardy

      2003

      Retirement of Subdean, Rex Davis

      LINCOLN CATHEDRAL AND MAGNA CARTA

      Lincoln Cathedral is visible for miles, sitting as it does atop Steep Hill, adjacent to the city’s Norman castle and if its Gothic architecture were an insufficient attraction, the cathedral boasts one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta.

      Properly referred to as Magna Carta Libertatum, King John’s Great Charter of the Rights, was drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and signed on 15th June 1215 at Runnymede near Windsor amid a gathering of England’s barons. Guaranteeing the rights of the church, outlawing unlawful imprisonment and limiting the Crown’s rights to feudal payments Magna Carta has had enormous significance in English constitutional history. Even though it was promptly annulled by Pope Innocent III and never entirely implemented, the core of its idealistic intentions survived two years of civil war (The First Baron’s War 1215-1217) and the death of King John, to become part of the peace treaty with the regents of the young Henry II, as re-confirmed in 1297 by King Edward I.

      The four original parchment copies of Magna Carta all survive. Written in an abbreviated form of medieval Latin and bearing the Great Royal Seal, two of the copies are lodged at the British Library (one of them rather damaged) and a third copy is held by Salisbury Cathedral. According to Lincolnshire folk the fourth copy of Magna Carta is the finest of them all and is a proud possession of Lincoln Cathedral.

      Maintaining the vast cathedrals of England is an expensive business and our beloved Church of England needs each cathedral to be financially self-sustaining. Fund-raising for restoration and maintenance is an ongoing and heavy burden for every cathedral chapter in the kingdom.

      At Lincoln one of the apparently ill-advised notions involved mandatory visitor charges and for an awful period a desk carrying a telephone and cash register was situated in the aisle near the main door, at least on weekdays. The chapter had perhaps

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